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Which nations were a part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization during the 1980s?
- -Britain
- -France
- -Canada
- -The United States
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In the years after World War II, what nation was the focal point of the cold war?
Germany
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In the Suez Canal crisis of 1956...
the United States and Soviet Union jointly interceded on behalf of Egypt.
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Which nation had the highest military expenditures following World War II?
the United States
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What new political movement in western Europe, following World War, II promised democratic institutions and moderate social reform?
the Christian Democrats
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Make a statement concerning the European welfare state.
The welfare state provided aid for citizens at many income levels and won support from many groups.
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The welfare state
initially won wide acceptance from all political factions.
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Margaret Thatcher, prime minister of Britain,
worked to cut the expenditures of the welfare state and to promote free enterprise.
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In what year was the European Economic Community first formed?
1958
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The fastest-growing sector of the labor force in the West after World War II was
services
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After 1945 the__________ emerged as one of two great world powers along with the United States.
Soviet Union
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In which period of Soviet history did the Soviet Union achieve superpower status?
1945 - 1985
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Which nation remained independent of direct Soviet control after 1948?
Albania
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What cultural institution was suppressed under Stalin's program?
the Orthodox Church
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The Soviet agricultural system
remained a major weakness of the regime to the 1980s.
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What was the status of women in the Soviet Union?
Soviet women dominated some professions, such as medicine, although they received less pay than men.
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What leader emerged to take primary power in the Soviet Union in 1956?
Nikita Khrushchev
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The rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II is often referred to as the __________.
cold war
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In 1947, the United States proclaimed its __________, a program of substantial loans that was designed to aid Western nations in rebuilding from the war's devastation.
Marshall Plan
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The final new ingredient of Europe's diplomatic framework, the __________ between the United States and the Soviet Union, had a durable influence on politics and society in the West.
cold war
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Several new political movements surfaced in postwar Europe, notably an important __________ current that was wedded to democratic institutions and moderate social reform.
Christian Democratic
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France, Britain, and the United States merged their zones of occupation into what became the __________.
Federal Republic of Germany
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France, pressed by the war in __________, changed its constitution in 1958.
Algeria
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The consolidation of democracy and the shift leftward of the political spectrum entailed a general movement toward a __________ state.
welfare
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A new breed of bureaucrat, often called a "__________" because of intense training in engineering or economics, came to the fore in the offices of government.
technocrat
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In Britain, Conservative leader __________ began the longest-running prime ministership in history in 1979.
Margaret Thatcher
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In 1958, six West European nations set up the __________, or Common Market, to begin to create a single economic entity across national boundaries.
European Economic Community
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A Common Market bureaucracy was established, ultimately in __________, to oversee operations.
Brussels
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The widespread exodus to West Germany from East Germany continued until the __________ was built in 1961.
Berlin Wall
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A challenge to communist rule came from Poland in the late 1970s in the form of an independent labor movement called __________.
Solidarity
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__________, exiled to the West because of his trilogy on Siberian prison camps, found the West too materialistic.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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In 1956 a new Soviet leader, __________, emerged from the committee pack to gain primary power.
Nikita Khrushchev
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The first manned spacecraft, __________, was sent up in 1957, well in advance of the U.S. response.
Sputnik
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